Retro inspired catwalk #5

Lena Hoschek #3

Even more pictures of the gorgeous designs of the wonderfull Lena Hoschek. These are from the ready-to-wear collection of spring 2011. I've posted pics of the earlier collections here and here.

Blog awards and life in general

I have recieved these two blog awards from the lovely miss margarita and The Bettie Vintage Page. I just wanted to say thank you! I recommend you all to take a look at these two fantastic bloggers. In the second award you are supposed to write three things you love, post your dream picture and send it to five people. I'm terrible at choosing any of these things, and since you are also supposed to send it to 15 other bloggers in the first award, I will only recommend you to take a look at my profile here at blogspot and take a look at the bloglist I've got there. There are so many good bloggers out there, so I have a hard time choosing only some of them (I hate to leave out anybody). So here it goes: you are all lovely!

In other news: I've got a week off from work and I'm not starting school until the 17th of January. This year I will only study one literature course (which is a couse in literature theory), but I will study two other courses I'm really looking forward to: Celtic Civilization and Witchcraft and -faith in Europe from 1400 until 1700.

I'm staying in my hometown at the moment, so while I will try reading some of the school books for this year, I will also spend some of the time doing other fun stuff like going bowling, ice skating, spend time with my lovely friends and watching movies. The oscar season is soon upon us, so I'm wathcing movies I think will be nominated.

I will also try to post some pictures from the christmas holiday, but I don't have many pictures to share. My sister, her boyfriend and my little nephew have gone back home, and I miss them already.

PS: It has been snowing like mad these past days. I will try and take some pictures of all the beautiful snow

PS2: I recieved an A in my introduction course in English grammar!

TV Costumes

Boardwalk Empire
pt 4
(2010)
Costume designer: John A Dunn
Here are the last stills from this season, and they are from episode 10-12. I've also posted stills from earlier episodes (1-4, 5-7, 8-9).
(better quality in full scale)

Old friends and family

(please do not take any of these pictures without permission)

Movie Classics: Christmas edition

I've been watching plenty of christmas movies this christmas (and I've still got a couple left). I thought of doing a real review, but I think I'm saving that for next year (Yes, I plan too far ahead). The short plot summaries are from imdb.com


The Bishop's Wife
(1947)
Runtime: 109min
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven

"A bishop trying to get a new cathedral built prays for guidance. An angel arrives, but his guidance isn't about fundraising"

Holiday Inn
(1942)
Runtime: 100min
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire,
Majorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale and Walter Abel

"At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer"

Miracle on 34th Street
(1947)
Runtime: 96min
Director: George Seaton
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne,
Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood

"When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing"

It's a Wonderfull Life
(1946)
Runtime: 130min
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore

"An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman bu showing what life would have been like if he never existed"

I'll Be Seeing You
(1944)
Runtime: 85min
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotton,
Shirley Temple, Spring Byington and Tom Tully

"A soldier suffering from battle fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance"

Christmas Holiday
(1944)
Runtime: 93min
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly and Richard Whorf

"A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel"

White Christmas
(1954)
Runtime: 120min
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye,
Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen and Dean Jagger

"A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general"

The Shop Around the Corner
(1940)
Runtime: 99min
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, Frank Morgan,
Joseph Schildkraut and Felix Bressart

"Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal"

Christmas buys

A few gifts I bought for myself from Etsy:

The Secret Garden crdigan clip (from AmbivalentRelics)

Vintage tiki ratan and wood floral handbag (from C3L35T3)

50s turquoise mink blend cardigan (from reverievintage)


Pictures taken from etsy